Eligibility

Eligibility and Inscrutability

Inscrutability arguments threaten to reduce interpretationistmetasemantic theories to absurdity. Can we find some way to block the arguments? A highly influential proposal in this regard is David Lewis’ ‘eligibility’ response: some theories are better than others, not because they fit the data better, but because they are framed in terms of more natural properties. The purposes of this paper ar...

Entitlement Eligibility Guidelines

How Presumptive Eligibility Works

EA TI VE S O LU TI O N S When Congress established the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) in 1997, it also enacted presumptive eligibility, a new state option for expediting children’s enrollment in Medicaid.1 Presumptive eligibility helps states cover children more quickly by allowing them to provide immediate, but temporary, enrollment in Medicaid or SCHIP to children who appea...

Entitlement Eligibility Guidelines

Integrating Eligibility and Suitability Scores

Some jobs such a computer programmers require a stronger emphasis on eligibility while other jobs such as customer service usually require a stronger emphasis on suitability. However, regardless of the emphasis, it is essential to assess both eligibility and suitability in order to obtain an accurate overall assessment. Otherwise, you will only be looking at about half of the factors that creat...